Asha and Jason

It stinks and its not Jason

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February 13th 2006
We went to the North Island by ferry from Picton after a long drive from Greymouth. On our way North to Rotorua we came across a beautiful double rainbow. We couldn't stop on the motorway so we took a photo from the car. Rotorua is a town sitting on a lot of geothermal activity. The place has loads of hot pools and smelly mud pools. It actually makes the whole town smell of rotten eggs. You're ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more